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Signs of the New Ethiopian Restaurant Rising in Upper Kirby a Few Days Ahead of Its Opening

The pile of signage lying on the grass in the photo above is on its way up over the front door of Ethiopianrestaurant Blue Nile ahead of its planned opening on Saturday at 3030 Audley St., just off Westheimer. Blue Nile is expanding to Upper Kirby from its original location on Richmond between Gessner and Fondren, which opened in 1994. Luigi’s Cucina Italiana closed down in the gabled building last year after moving into it from Galveston in 2014.

The new restaurant’s signs are replacing Luigi’s old ones — now fully unlit and unmounted: